An incarcerated woman in a Texas prison is being kept in isolation and punished for talking to other women about abortion, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The punishment was doled out mid-April, ...

For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

Story by Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com • 27m Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era ...